Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla, under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry : illustrated by numerous plates . ir charts, that the part of the sea-coast sonamed lies at no great distance from Ponds Bay, in lat. 72|°, which has latelybecome a common rendezvous of our Davis Strait fishermen. Of this factwe had, in the course of the winter, received intimation from these peoplefrom time to time, and had even some reason to believe that our visit to
Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla, under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry : illustrated by numerous plates . ir charts, that the part of the sea-coast sonamed lies at no great distance from Ponds Bay, in lat. 72|°, which has latelybecome a common rendezvous of our Davis Strait fishermen. Of this factwe had, in the course of the winter, received intimation from these peoplefrom time to time, and had even some reason to believe that our visit to theEsquimaux of the River Clyde in 1820 was known to them ; but what mostexcited our interest at this time was the sledge brought by the new-comers,the runners being composed of large single pieces of wood, one of thempainted black over a lead-coloured priming, and the cross-bars consist-ing of heading-pieces of oak-butts, one flat board with a hinge-mark upon it,the upper end of a skid or small-boats davit, and others that had evidentlyand recently been procured from some ship. On one of the heading-pieceswe distinguished the letters Brea—, shewing that the cask had, according tothe custom of the whalers, contained bread on the outward passage. The. OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 437 nature of all these materials led us to suppose that it must have been pro- 1 se-cured from some vessel wrecked or damaged on the coast; and this suspicion v_^0was on the following day confirmed by our obtaining information that, at aplace called Akkoodneak, a single days journey beyond Toonoonek, two shipslike ours had been driven on shore by the ice, and that the people hadgone away in boats equipped for the purpose, leaving one ship on her beamends and the other upright, in which situation the vessels were supposed stillto remain *. We observed on this occasion, as on our first arrival at Igioolik, that thenew Esquimaux were obliged to have recourse to the others to interpret tothem our meaning,
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